the no-true-scotsman "how DARE you suggest that the lesbian community has any kind of transmisogyny problem" historical revisionism shit has to stop btw. leslie feinberg is not going to spin and explode in hir grave if you acknowledge that we as tme lesbians have historically had ties between our movements and transmisogynistic ones, that many of our spaces past and present harbor people who want to hurt our transfem loved ones, and that in the broader discourse we have always occupied a particular rhetorical niche as lesbians which transmisogynists (many of them, yes, sadly, also lesbians) have used as a cudgel against trans women in the name of "protecting lesbians." shouting down transfem dykes whenever they point this out doesn't do anything to change that reality. we can be tough enough dykes to accept critique and look inward without crying lesbophobia (against other lesbians, no less!), and moreover we owe it to our trans lesbian comrades to stay vigilant about this shit and to believe them when they tell us what they've experienced